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Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)

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Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)

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Post by JoshTriplett »

Daneel_ wrote: post #9
pacaro wrote: post #2

This is one of those surprisingly useful and obvious things that I'm surprised not to have seen before. Knowledge of (including pronunciation) jargon is a classic gatekeeper In my experience, I'm in the minority in pronouncing sudo as soodoo, the majority seem to say pseudo. OTOH I've never heard anyone say fsck as anything other than f-suck From personal experience at Microsoft the backslash was frequently pronounce…

I was a su-dough person until I realise that sudo stands for 'super user do' or 'su do', so I switched to soodoo - it makes a lot more sense that way. f-suck is a new one for me though. I would say F S C K to someone else, but I call it fusk in my head.

I tend to pronounce fsck as one syllable, like "fisk" without the 'i'.

Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)

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Post by ghayes »

gorgoiler wrote: post #61

- ifconfig: eye eff config (not “iff-config”) - “#!”: hash bang (not “shub-ang”) - sh: shuh like le as in le monde (not “ess ayche”) - tcl: tickle One of the hardest for me though is on a different topic to pronunciation. What name would you give to a variable that keeps track of the current working directory? What name did bash use for this variable? Answers (for me): - pwd: is “print working directory” - $PWD: is “…

For me, two of those would be `shebang` (#!) and `S H` (ess eich). It's nice to coalesce around pronunciations, but we should also accept that people will choose different dialects.

Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)

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Post by BossingAround »

I found there is this "pride in the correct pronunciation" in the opensource community. It seems to be a signal of a group membership and a creed validator.

Who cares though? Why does "correct pronunciation" matter? Linux is nowadays used by many more non-native English speakers who will pronounce it very differently.

This attempt at correcting others seems like gatekeeping and, to me personally, feels like a very anti-inclusive thing to do.

Tangentially, the fact that some of the pronunciation is so non-intuitive (e.g. /etc -> etsy) should be a bug, not a feature and pride point. Can you imagine if you reported that a workflow is non-intuitive in a piece of SW and the devs told you "we know, cool, right?!"

Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)

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Post by bch »

hodgesrm wrote: post #8

MySQL pronunciation can be "My S Q L" or "My Sequel." I think most people in the community probably use the latter, but truthfully most of us don't really care. The "S Q L" vs. "Sequel" split has existed almost as long as SQL itself. The original name for the language was "SEQUEL." [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL#History

What’s better is that “My” has nothing to do with possession, and it’s pronounced “Me”: it’s Widenius’ daughters name[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Widenius

Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)

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Post by ghayes »

mocar wrote: post #69
Daneel_ wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have no idea how to pronounce this as one syllable, it's always been che-mod to me. Chown is one syllable though, I agree there.

Cho-oon is one syllable? No way :)

I, personally, pronounce this as /ʧəʊn/ in one syllable [onset=ʧ, nucleus=əʊ, coda=n]

Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)

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Post by JoshTriplett »

> /var: rhymes with jar

While I've heard people pronounce it that way, given that "var" is short for "variable" or "varying" (as in capable of changing), I've primarily heard people pronounce it as the first syllable of "variable": vair.

(I have also, rarely, heard people pronounce "variable" as though the first syllable rhymes with "far".)

Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)

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Post by hashmush »

Blikkentrekker wrote: post #51
Gare wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> (I'm not sure /tʃm/ is valid in any language - words or names that start with "chm" seem to be Polish/Russian words transliterating /xm/.) Oh it sure is in Croatian (and other Slavic languages), "tʃ" is written as "č". We even have slang words like "čmr-lji-ti" [t͡ʃmrʎiti]. "r" (rolling r) can function as a vowel.

“vzkvět” is a word in Czech that is pronounced in one syllable, exactly how it's spelled, of course. The Dutch word “striktst” is of course also pronounced exactly how it's spelled, and in one syllable.

Or Swedish "västkustskt" (lit. west coast-ish), where "kustskt" is one syllable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_phonology#Phonotactics

On-topic, I pronounce chmod as one syllable with "sh", like schmuck.

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